Sense Sonnet - Acher

 The Better Man

Joan of Arc, the teenager, dared

Both Englishmen and Frenchmen to

Admit that they were really scared

Of what just a mere girl might do.

The French king let her fight his fight,

But when the English duke took her

Prisoner, Joan did know her right

Was to be wronged by men for sure.

She was condemned for heresy,

And worse, for like a man she dressed.

Unrepentant, to the stake, she

Went to her future sainthood, blessed.

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust,

Joan died by fire, as knew she must.